Everton Have Much to Be Positive About

Matt Jones, EPL Talk , 13 May, 17comments | Jump to most recent

There is no point understating the significance this summer holds for Everton; it represents a new chapter in the clubs decorated history. A new manager, a new captain and a flurry of transfer activity surely await Toffees supporters. But despite many outsiders proclaiming the world is about to come crashing down around Everton, there is much for the supporters to be positive and excited about.

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John Gee
1 Posted 14/05/2013 at 20:16:32

And I'm Bilbo Baggins.

Let's see how positive we are when BK hires Lennon and we blow our budget signing Shawcross to replace jags.

Ross Edwards
2 Posted 14/05/2013 at 20:26:04

Yes we have, David Moyes has left.

Brent Stephens
3 Posted 14/05/2013 at 20:26:41

FFS, Ross, do you have to say the same thing on every thread still. We get your point. Though disagree (40,000 at the last count).

Andy Crooks
4 Posted 14/05/2013 at 20:27:12

John.

BK won't hire Lennon. Jagielka won't go and Shawcross will never play for Everton. Apart from that your post is spot on. Also, it wouldn't be the end of the world if you were right.

Matt Traynor
5 Posted 15/05/2013 at 06:18:07

Andy, guessing, but I don't think he's Bilbo Baggins either. Think it was that bloke from The Office.

Paul Ellam
6 Posted 15/05/2013 at 13:31:36

It certainly won't be a dull, quiet summer! I am trying to stay positive and keeping my fingers crossed for good things to happen

Colin Glassar
7 Posted 15/05/2013 at 15:16:02

I'm trying to be positive but it's BK we are talking about here.

Chris Keightley
8 Posted 15/05/2013 at 15:19:35

Cest le vie - I will categorically state that I will back whoever comes in both in management and on the playing front !

Eugene Ruane
9 Posted 15/05/2013 at 15:22:08

I love how " a flurry of transfer activity surely await" is spun/assumed to be positive.

If I remember correctly, our last 'flurry' had most Evertonians seething.

Neal Kernohan
10 Posted 15/05/2013 at 15:24:57

Matt, is Bilbo Baggins not our left back?

Tony J Williams
11 Posted 15/05/2013 at 15:32:38

The lad "in the know" in work has said that Moyes was supposedly lining up 5 bids for players in the summer, Negredo for £14m, Fer, some other Swedish fella and two others, he didn't give the names. Also Baines has definitely gone.... I hope he is wrong this time.

Obviously the transfers will be up in the air now, as the new man may not want them.

Ross Edwards
12 Posted 15/05/2013 at 16:29:23

Tony J, does this lad in the know's name begin with Sheik?

Tony J Williams
13 Posted 15/05/2013 at 17:10:15

Tim Jones
14 Posted 15/05/2013 at 17:18:49

Brent Stephens # 428 Brent it seems your brain operates in such a way that you can't escape falling in to the trap of using constantly using Logical Fallacies . First you use Ad Hominem attacks and now you are using Argumentum Ad Populem. Just because many people think the same thing it does not make them correct. Remember everyone knew the Earth was flat until they discovered it wasn't.
In this case there is the added complication that you have no possible way of knowing what 40,000 people think so your claim is not only preposterous but if true they would all have to be just as naive , gullible and deluded as you.

Brent Stephens
15 Posted 15/05/2013 at 17:40:53

TimPeter, I didn't say we were right. All I said was we disagree. Of course I don't know what the 40,000 were actually thinking but I think it's reasonable to make an assumption that they had positive thoughts, based on their positive reactions. Thanks for the AH at the end!

Jack Cross
16 Posted 16/05/2013 at 02:14:44

That's why I think we're much better off without the likes of Martinez. We have a very good team in place. And I think with, say, four new buys, we should be able to push on. If it means selling Felli, sell him he's replaceable. especially if we can get £30 million for him and I don't see why not.

But of course, I think Baines going would be a disaster as any team would miss him. Oviedo is a possible replacement though, with what I've seen of him.

Let's hope Barkley, Duffy and Vellios are given a better chance than under Moyes. There are 4 good lads with lots to offer and let's hope they get their chance.

I think Jelavic under someone else will get back to his old self. You don't become a bad striker all of a sudden. But then Moyes put the defense before scoring. We need a fine mixture of both. I can see good things next season. But Martinez... nice fella, but not for me.

Frida Ericsson
17 Posted 16/05/2013 at 05:36:02

Jack Cross - Mirallas needs to be put up top in his natural position as opposed to playing on the wing. Mirallas for me is a lot better than Jelavic. You can be sure he'd be banging in a lot more goals than he has since he has come back into the team.

I would be keen for the new manager to play him in his natural role, with fallaini playing in his preferred position.

It goes without saying that we need to also sign Negredo, which if I read correctly a little while back, Moyes had planned to buy him for 14 mill in the close season from Sevilla. In actuality I would expect to see his price come down a bit , since sevilla are now in desperate straits and will struggle to keep hold of most of their players in the summer.

The main problem this season as been the lack of goals, and because of the stinker that Jelly is. I don't think he is just tired and I don't think next season if he stayed anything would be any different.

When he came to us last season and started to bang them in, I thought to myself this is too good to be true, and if something appears to be too good to be true it usually is, and for me this season he has proven that assumption to be true for me.

James Beattie the new Jelavic? you could include james mcfadden in there some where too for me, never looked like scoring after the home game to tottenham , even before then he was heavily struggling.

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